Page "Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog" Paragraph 6

In May 1939, shortly before the Second World War, the British put out the white paper of 1939 restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine.

After leading a procession through the streets of Jerusalem, with an unusually united Jewish following from all sects, on the steps of the Hurva Synagogue he turned and said: We cannot agree to the White Paper.

Just as the prophets did before me, I hereby rip it in two.

Some 40 years later, on 10 November 1975 Ambassador Herzog repeated his father's gesture with the UN resolution that Zionism is equal to racism.